On 27 October 2011 06:46, Andreas K. Huettel <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a certain size
> (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog)
> the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file
> is renamed with a date extension and a
> new file is started. This has the benefit that the archived file is static
> and will never be retransmitted
> by rsync.
>

For rotation, an arbitrary line-length offset would not be advisable in my
opinion. It would need to split at a logical place like before a "release"
entry.

As for codifying this, applying software to automate splitting changelogs in
this manner could be initially challenging as I've seen a few Changelogs
with really inconsistent style at the bottom of them.

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